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April 3, 2014

Con: Boycott is academically dishonest and a triumph for bigotry

WASHINGTON — U.S. scholars’ mounting boycotts of Israeli academic and cultural institutions are ironic indeed, for they contradict everything that higher education is supposed to stand for — they are

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